MUSEUM of the City of New York

The GILDED AGE in New YORK……………the current exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York [on 5th Ave]……….displaying the fashionable attire and portraits of the truly rich.

Paris was the height of fashion…….and New York’s high society crossed the ocean to buy custom made garments by couturier’s who were happy to accept vast fortunes for their dresses.

Charles Frederick Worth was the most desired couturier of all the designers. He designed this fancy dress costume “Infanta Margarita after Velazquez”. It was worn by Ms. Kate Brice to the Bradley-Martin Ball in 1897.

Helen Virginia Sands…….age 19……married to Joseph De La Mar.

Painted by Théobald Chartran.……..1896

Mrs. Edmund Lincoln Baylies [Louisa Van Rensselaer].

Painted by: Charles Auguste Emile Durand a famous painter who trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris ………and French society clamored for a portrait.